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GLOSSARY. 



Sinuous. Curving back and forth. 



Sinus. The open interval between lobes 

 or segments. 



Smooth. Not rough ; the surface even. 



Spadix. A spike with usually a thickened 

 fleshy rhachis and subtended by a 

 spathe. 



Span. The distance between the extrem- 

 ities of the thumb and little finger 

 when extended ; about nine inches. 



Spathaceous. Bearing or resembling a 

 spathe. 



Spathe. One or more clasping and often 

 sheathing bracts enclosing a flower 

 cluster or inflorescence and mostly 

 colored. 



Spatulate. Narrowed downward from an 

 abruptly rounded summit. 



Species. A group of things of the same 

 kind, having essentially the same 

 characters. 



Specific. That which relates to a species. 



Spicate. In spikes or resembling a spike. 



Spike. A simple elongated inflorescence, 

 with the flowers sessile or very nearly 

 so. 



Spine. A sharp woody or rigid outgrowth 

 from the stem, a modification of a 

 branch, leaf or stipule. 



Spinescent. Ending in a spine or rigid 

 point. 



Spinose, Spiny. Furnished with or 

 resembling spines. 



Spinulose. Having diminutive spines. 



Spur. A usually slender tubular process 

 from some part of a flower, often 

 nectariferous. 



Squarrose. Roughened and jagged with 

 projections spreading every way, as 

 by the divaricately spreading ends of 

 crowded leaves or bracts. 



'St amen. The pollen-bearing organ of 

 the flower, consisting of an anther 

 usually supported upon a stalk or 

 filament. 



Stamineal. Relating to or consisting of 

 the stamens. 



Staminodium.A. sterile stamen or some- 

 thing taking the place of a stamen. 



Stellate. Star-shaped; radiating in fine 

 lines from a centre, like the rays of an 

 asterisk. 



Stem. The main axis of a plant. 



Stemless. Without manifest stem above 

 ground. 



Sterile. Barren; not capable of produc- 

 ing seed; a sterile stamen is one not 

 producing pollen. 



Stigma. That portion of the pistil with- 

 out epidermis through which the 

 pollen-tubes effect entrance to the 

 ovules, very variable in shape and 

 position. 



Stiqmatic. Belonging or relating to the 

 stigma. 



Stipe. The footstalk of a pistil raising it 

 above the receptacle: in ferns, the 

 naked stalk of the frond. 



Stipitate. Borne upon a stipe. 



Stipular. Belonging to the stipules. 



Stipulate. Possessing stipules. 



Stipule. An appendage to the base of a 

 petiole, very various in form and 

 character. 



Stolon. A horizontal prostrate offshoot 

 from the base of a plant. 



Stoloniferous. Bearing or propagating 

 by stolons. 



Stone. The hard endoearp or putamen of 

 a drupe. 



Sir iate. Marked with fine longitudinal 

 lines. 



Strict. Upright and very straight. 



Strigillose. Minutely strigose. 



Strifjose. Beset with short straight stiff 

 and appressed sharp-pointed hairs. 



Strophiole.-A.Ji appendage at the point 

 of attachment of some seeds. 



Style. That portion of the pistil between 

 the ovary proper and the stigma, 

 usually attenuated, often wanting. 



Stylopodium.A. cushion-like expansion 

 at the base of the style in Umbellif erae. 



Subtended. Supported or surrounded, 

 as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower 

 cluster by an involucre ; fulcrate. 



Subulate. Awl-shaped. 

 Succulent. Fleshy and juicy. 



